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Old 05-21-2015, 07:21 AM
 
Location: Kentucky Bluegrass
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first, I don't know if this is the place I should post this, if it isn't, please feel free to move it.

America is going to pot...or at least my little neck of the woods is...
Every single night, I've noted how so many people are running red lights without a care in the world?

My gosh, so much so, I warned the other girls I work with and they told me, they've seen it to....

What is wrong with people....they complain about others breaking the laws...my gosh they could broadside someone....
Everyone in this country feels they are entitled any more and it makes me sick....

They're all talking on their phones while driving, texting while driving...

I don't get it....and don't want to....
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:24 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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The people on bicycles are the worst.

It seems half of bicycles run red lights, and not the "it just turned but I'm making it through" run, it is the "it has been red for 30 seconds and I am just not going to stop"

It is like they have figured out they will lose if ever hit by a car.
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:26 AM
 
Location: Kentucky Bluegrass
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The people on bicycles are the worst.

It seems half of bicycles run red lights, and not the "it just turned but I'm making it through" run, it is the "it has been red for 30 seconds and I am just not going to stop"

It is like they have figured out they will lose if ever hit by a car.
yeah, I forgot to say that, cars to, they go thru the lights when it's red???????

What the heck is wrong with people....?
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:29 AM
 
Location: Sonoran Desert
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It's been a problem here for a long time. I suppose it is distracted driving mostly, but on occasion I just get sick of all the unnecessary signaled intersections and the poor light timing. If no one is looking, I have been known to take off on red. I treat stop signs as a "Yield" sign.
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:32 AM
 
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OP, most of the world runs red lights. This is not a sign that the world is coming to an end. You must be a Republican, aren't you? Oh nevermind I know the answer to that question.
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:32 AM
 
Location: U.S. (East Coast)
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I treat stop signs as a "Yield" sign and red lights as a recommendation.
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:33 AM
 
Location: By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea
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yeah, I forgot to say that, cars to, they go thru the lights when it's red???????

What the heck is wrong with people....?
Many are apparently very important and believe their phone calls are worth killing someone for.
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:36 AM
 
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Many are apparently very important and believe their phone calls are worth killing someone for.
I agree. 90% of the drivers iI see yacking on their phones all the time are women
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:36 AM
 
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What I get annoyed in America is all of the stop signs everywhere when most of them can be replaced with Yield signs just like in Europe!
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Old 05-21-2015, 07:46 AM
 
Location: SC
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I see people going through just turned red lights all the time. It has been that way for as long as I have been driving.

But if you are saying that people are going through solid (hot, total - or any other euphemism for a light that has been red for a while) reds, then that is something new to me and I have not seen it in SC. Where are you seeing this?
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